Archive | August, 2010

Did you guys hear about this?? The city of Philadelphia is requiring bloggers to pay a business license fee, even if the bloggers do not make a profit. Unbelievable! According to the news story, the city government is charging bloggers a $300 licensing fee, on top of a bunch of other fees: a business privilege […]

Yeah yeah. We ALL need it. We don’t like to talk about it much, or even think about it: insurance. My Hubs was an insurance salesman for a while. What a job! It’s a lot of work for so-so pay. Some of his colleagues made a TON of money. (We did not, in case you […]

I live in Upstate New York. We have winter for 6 months of the year. Summers can be humid sometimes, but this year just takes the cake. Holy cow!!! What is going on with this crazy weather?! You wanna know how humid it is here? I’m sitting at my desk, it’s 73 degrees and rising. […]

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I love Australia. Never been there (but I hope to go someday!). There’s just something intriguing about the place. Everything there is upside down (this coming from a Northern Hemisphere lass). But besides the map placement, everything IS upside down there! Think about it– Australia is the place where the coastal areas are teeming with […]

When the kids and I are doing something tedious, say driving long distances or spackling sheetrock, we sometimes play little word games with each other. We recently made a trip out to Herkimer, NY, and played a game that is currently my favorite. We call it “Colors That Never Made It to the Crayon Bin.” […]

Well, I do! What a silly question! :grinny: If you REALLY want to save money, why do you pay full price for your online shopping products?? There’s a veritable pot o’ gold at the end of rainbow, Frugal Hacks! Here’s the best way to save yourself some of that cash when you shop online: USE […]

When it comes to blogging, are you uber-creative? About your template? I have visited some absolutely phenomenal blogs, with absorbing narrative and eye-popping photography… but a really lousy template. In the blogging world, we have these unwritten rules about blog and website templates: no auto-play videos or music, no black or dark backgrounds, no bandwidth-sucking […]

… SELL IT, silly! I confess— I am one of those very rare women who doesn’t like shoes. I was never a “shoe” person. My husband has to take me to the store to get new shoes. I’d heard that Imelda Marcos owned, like, 3,000 pairs of shoes. HOLY COW! She could never wear so […]

I’m Rebecca

I’m a married mom with 4 kids. We live in Upstate New York in an old 1855 house with our five pets (yes, five, *sigh*). Life is never dull, and exciting things just seem to always happen to me... why me... when I'm not running around the house fixing things, I'm a freelance writer for national media outlets like USAToday.com, Salon.com, and others. I've even been interviewed by TIME and The Wall Street Journal about blogging. Can you believe it?! Here is where I express my zany, creative, motherly side.